“…Mechanistically, lncRNAs may act as chromatin remodeler, transcriptional modulator, splicing regulator, posttranscriptional processor, enhancer, molecular decoys for miRNAs, or as a guide for protein-protein, protein-DNA and protein-RNA interaction [4,5,13,14]. Given the properties of disease-, tissue-and developmental-specificity, lncRNA may serve as a candidate biomarker for GC diagnosis [9,13,15]. Indeed, recent evidences have confirmed that several lncRNAs may not only provide significance for GC diagnosis, stage assessment and prognosis prediction, but also serve as promising targets for GC treatment [9,13,15].…”